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Justice and Its Surroundings
by Anthony de Jasay
/ Learn MoreAnthony de Jasay breaks new ground with Justice and Its Surroundings—a collection of trenchant essays that seek to redefine the concept of justice and to highlight the frontier between it and the surrounding issues that encroach upon it and are mistakenly associated with it. This straightforward and terse book analyzes the roles of collective choice, redistribution, and socialism and the…
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The Keynesian Episode
by W. H. Hutt
/ Learn MoreThe late W. H. Hutt was a preeminent and persistent critic of the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes. In The Keynesian Episode, he presents a comprehensive review of Keynes’s General Theory, including the finest critique to date of the Acceleration Principle. He questions the very legitimacy of Keynes’s fundamental epistemology. In Hutt’s discussion of economics there is a refreshing…
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La libertad moderna y los l?mites del gobierno
by Charles Fried
/ Learn MoreTraducido por Estela Otero El tema de este libro es la libertad individual. Pero no se trata de la libertad individual como problema abstracto y universal, sino de sus posibilidades y límites en el marco del Estado de bienestar. A partir de la premisa de que el Estado de bienestar moderno redefinió la noción que teníamos de la libertad individual,…
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The Lamp of Experience
by Trevor Colbourn
/ Learn MoreIn a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century examines the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the founding fathers. As Jack P. Greene has observed, “[The Whig] conception saw the past as a continual struggle between liberty and virtue on one hand and arbitrary power and corruption on the…
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The Law of Nations Treated According to the Scientific Method
by Christian Wolff
/ Learn MoreChristian Wolff’s The Law of Nations is a cornerstone of eighteenth-century thought. A treatise on the philosophy of human action, on the foundations of political communities, and on international law, it influenced philosophers throughout the eighteenth-century Enlightenment world. According to Knud Haakonssen, general editor of the Natural Law and Enlightenment series, “before Kant’s critical philosophy, Wolff was without comparison the…
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The Law of Nations
by Emer de Vattel
/ Learn MoreThe great eighteenth-century theorist of international law Emer de Vattel (1714–1767) was a key figure in sustaining the practical and theoretical influence of natural jurisprudence through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras. Coming toward the end of the period when the discourse of natural law was dominant in European political theory, Vattel’s contribution is cited as a major source of contemporary…
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Law, Liberty, and Parliament
by Allen D. Boyer
/ Learn MoreSir Edward Coke remains one of the most important figures in the history of the common law. The essays collected in this volume provide a broad context for understanding and appreciating the scope of Coke’s achievement: his theory of law, his work as a lawyer and a judge, his role in pioneering judicial review, his leadership of the Commons, and…
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Lectures on Jurisprudence
by Adam Smith
/ Learn MoreSmith’s Lectures on Jurisprudence, originally delivered at the University of Glasgow in 1762–1763, presents his “theory of the rules by which civil government ought to be directed.” The chief purpose of government, according to Smith, is to preserve justice; and “the object of justice is security from injury.” The state must protect the individual’s right to his person, property, reputation,…
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
by Adam Smith
/ Learn MoreThe “Notes of Dr. Smith’s Rhetorick Lectures,” discovered in 1958 by a University of Aberdeen professor, consists of lecture notes taken by two of Smith’s students at the University of Glasgow in 1762–1763. There are thirty lectures in the collection, all on rhetoric and the different kinds or characteristics of style. The book is divided into “an examination of the…
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Lectures on the French Revolution
by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
/ Learn MoreThis collection of the lectures of Lord Acton on the French Revolution comprises a disciplined, thorough, and elegant history of the actual events of the bloody episode. It is as thorough a record as could be constructed in Acton’s time of the actions of the government of France during the Revolution. Delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, Lectures…
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England during the Nineteenth Century
by A. V. Dicey
/ Learn MoreThis volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during the nineteenth century and its impact on legislation. Dicey’s lectures were accurate as a reflection of the anxieties felt by turn-of-the-century Benthamite Liberals in the face of Socialist and New Liberal challenges. A. V.…
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The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek (DVD)
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/ Learn MoreIn celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Friedrich von Hayek’s birth, Liberty Fund and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago present The Legacy of Friedrich von Hayek, a DVD series of seven lectures from outstanding scholars of Hayek’s work. The host and moderator for the lectures is the Chairman of the Committee on Social Thought,…
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